Rob Lowe, Sioux City Reporter, Turns Up on ‘Vieira’

KTIV Sioux City’s on-air reporter, Robert Lowe, popped up in New York Dec. 17 as a guest on The Meredith Vieira Show. Another Rob Lowe, the film star and DirecTV pitchman, was on Vieira’s talker as well.

The local TV guy was a guest in Vieira’s Same Name Game segment, correctly answering a question about what a Chyron is.

Sioux City's Lowe joined KTIV in June, after interning at Meet the Press. He spoke of his visit to New York on KTIV’s 6 p.m. news the same day.

KTIV is an NBC affiliate owned by the Quincy Newspaper folks.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.